Separate Vigil Mass texts in RM with separate set of readings. An elongated Vigil Liturgy of the Word is one option.
Mass of Pentecost; Gloria, Sequence, Creed, Preface of Pentecost, special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I, Double alleluia at the dismissal.
Yr C
[63] Acts 2:1-11; Ps 104:1+24, 29b-30, 31+34; Rom 8:8-17 (Year C) or 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13; Jn 14:15-16, 23b-26 (Year C) or Jn 20:19-23.
Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum. At Evening Prayer II, double alleluia at dismissal
After Evening Prayer, the Paschal Candle is extinguished, and moved to the Baptistery, where it is kept in a place of honor so that the candles of the newly baptised may be lit from it.
The weeks of the year resume with Week 7.
Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
87th anniversary of the death of P. Emil Schmitz (82) d. 1953 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
72nd anniversary of the death of P. Kenneth Tasman (78) d. 1968 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1521
Ignatius was seriously wounded at Pamplona, Spain, while defending its fortress against the French.
1521
St. Ignatius was seriously wounded while defending the Castle of Pamplona against the French.
1622
The death of Pedro Paez, S.J., a Spanish missionary to Ethiopia, the second apostle of Ethiopia. He reached Ethiopia in 1603 after 15 years of journey because en route he was enslaved by Turkish pirates for 7 years. He was the first European to see the source of the blue Nile, he wrote a history of Ethiopia and learned several languages.
1823
Saint Louis University (St. Louis College) is founded.
1961
In a letter dated 20 May, Fr. Swain, Vicar-General formally approved the Institute of Jesuit Sources. The plan was launched unofficially the previous year when Fr. Janssens gave Fr. Ganss permission to start work on an English version of the Constitutions.
1968
J. Franklin (Buck) Ewing, S.J. dies anthropologist, missiologist.
1973
The Society of Jesus allowed in Switzerland after a Referendum.
1974
Jean Cardinal Danielou, SJ, dies in Paris, engaged in ministry.
